“So, anyway, I got up and opened the door and it was Dave [Coldwell, Richards’ trainer] along with one of the other management people. Dave was like, ‘Lerrone, sit down,’ so I did. They then tell me that the fight has been cancelled. I was thinking they might be having me on – hoping that was the case – but then I thought to myself, No, they wouldn’t joke about something like that. They then said that he [Ramirez, his opponent] had been rushed to hospital with appendicitis. I just thought, Wow, there’s nothing I can do about this.
How Lerrone Richards turned disappointment into a dress rehearsal
